Imagine waking up one morning to find everything you thought was solid suddenly crumbling. Stocks plunging, office buildings sitting empty, retirement accounts evaporating overnight. That dystopian picture isn’t from some Hollywood blockbuster, it’s the warning one of the world’s best-known financial educators just fired across the bow.
Robert Kiyosaki, the man who wrote Rich Dad Poor Dad and turned millions of people into real estate and asset bulls, says the biggest crash in history isn’t coming, it’s already here. And his advice? Load the boat with silver before it rockets past $200 an ounce.
Why Kiyosaki Believes the Mother of All Crashes Has Arrived
Back in 2013 he published a book titled Rich Dad’s Prophecy that laid out, chapter and verse, why a monumental economic breakdown was inevitable. Most people laughed or ignored it. Fast-forward twelve years and Kiyosaki says the prophecy is unfolding in real time, only it’s worse than even he imagined because artificial intelligence is now accelerating the destruction.
He points out that entire job categories are vanishing faster than anyone predicted. When millions suddenly have no paycheck, they stop paying rent, stop paying mortgages, and stop shopping. Empty office towers and ghost-town malls follow almost immediately. Europe and Asia, he says, are already deep into the spiral alongside the United States.
“AI will wipe out jobs and when jobs crash office and residential real estate will crash with them. Unfortunately that crash has arrived.”
Robert Kiyosaki, November 23 2025
Silver: The “Best and Safest” Bet Right Now
Among gold, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and silver, Kiyosaki is crystal clear about his favorite. “Silver is the best and the safest,” he wrote this weekend while the metal trades around $50 an ounce. His near-term target? $70. His 2026 call? A staggering $200, a 300% move from current levels.
That isn’t just cheerleading. Industrial demand for silver in solar panels, electric vehicles, 5G infrastructure, and medical equipment is exploding at the exact moment aboveground inventories are near historic lows. Add monetary panic buying during a crash and you get the classic supply-demand vice that sends prices parabolic.
- Solar industry alone is projected to consume over 300 million ounces annually by 2030
- Global silver mine production has been flat or declining for years
- Central banks don’t hold silver like they do gold, meaning no flood of official selling to cap prices
- Physical silver coins and bars are already seeing delivery delays at major dealers
The Bitcoin Sale That Raised Eyebrows
Two days before his silver manifesto, Kiyosaki quietly dropped another bomb: he sold roughly 25 Bitcoin he originally bought around $6,000 for approximately $90,000 each, pocketing about $2.25 million in profit.
Crypto Twitter lost its mind. “Bearish on Bitcoin?” they screamed. Nothing could be further from the truth. He immediately rolled the proceeds into two cash-flowing surgery centers and a billboard business that he expects will throw off $27,500 a month in tax-free income starting early 2026.
In his words, this is classic Rich Dad strategy: let one asset (Bitcoin) appreciate massively, harvest the gain, and buy income-producing real assets that pay you every month while you sleep. He’s still “very bullish” on Bitcoin and plans to buy more, but with cash flow instead of capital gains.
“I am still very bullish and optimistic on Bitcoin and will begin acquiring more with my positive cash flow.”
Why Silver Could Outshine Everything Else in a Crisis
History rhymes. During the 1970s inflation storm, silver ran from $6 to nearly $50 in less than four years, an 800% gain while gold “only” quadrupled. The 2008-2011 financial crisis saw silver surge 440% peak-to-trough while stocks crashed and burned.
Today the setup looks eerily similar, only bigger. Trillions in fresh debt, currency debasement, geopolitical tension, and now the AI unemployment shock all point to a flight into tangible assets. Gold gets the headlines, but silver often delivers the knockout punch because it’s smaller, more volatile, and has that industrial demand tailwind.
Think about it this way: if panic sends investors rushing into precious metals and industrial users are already scrambling for every available ounce, who wins bigger, the $13 trillion gold market or the $1.5 trillion silver market?
How Average Investors Can Position Themselves
Kiyosaki has always preached education over speculation. His message today is simple: get out of paper promises and into hard assets before the crowd wakes up.
- Physical silver coins and bars (recognizable 1-oz rounds or government mint coins)
- Junk silver bags (pre-1965 U.S. dimes/quarters, 90% silver, trade at small premium)
- Reputable large bars (100-oz or 1,000-oz for lower premium if storage isn’t an issue)
- Well-managed silver ETFs or closed-end funds only if physical delivery isn’t practical
He’s adamant about taking personal possession when possible. “You don’t want a promise of silver when the system freezes, you want the actual metal in your hands,” is the underlying philosophy.
The Bigger Picture Nobody Wants to Talk About
Perhaps the most interesting aspect, at least to me, is how consistent Kiyosaki has been for three decades. He’s been called a perma-bear, a gold bug, a crypto hater (until he became one of the biggest Bitcoin advocates), yet his core message never wavers: own assets that can’t be printed, that produce cash flow, and that history has proven survive empires collapsing.
Whether silver actually hits $200 by 2026 is anyone’s guess. Markets love to humiliate the consensus. But the conditions he’s describing, massive debt, technological job destruction, and a loss of faith in paper money, are undeniably gathering steam.
In a world where central banks can conjure trillions with a keystroke, owning something they can’t create out of thin air starts to feel less like speculation and more like common sense.
Kiyosaki’s final thought in his weekend post was telling: “The good news is while millions will lose everything… if you are prepared… this crash will make you richer.”
Love him or hate him, the man has been preparing people for this exact moment for decades. Whether silver becomes the trade of the decade or simply a solid hedge, one thing feels certain: ignoring warnings from someone who called the last two major precious-metal runs probably isn’t the smartest play.
The clock is ticking, and the storm clouds are already here.
